Word: attest
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Miss Marcia Shohet, a sophomore at Sarah Lawrence, arrived in Cambridge yesterday afternoon as the attest of three Law School students. The first girl to appear in response to the plan, she complained about the parched-pipe situation in the city and admitted "I haven't washed my hair since Thursday...
...work of a noted Lincoln scholar, digging up minutiae of value. It was at the old Illinois capital of Vandalia that 27-year-old Abraham Lincoln solved a tricky problem in practical politics, and it is useful to know not only that he did it, as the biographies attest, but precisely...
...especially of human figures, was awkward, stiff and anatomically inept. But the prints also showed the order and clarity of Gill's mind and the precision of his craft; they had the decisive simplicity that characterized all his work. Beyond that, even his woodcuts of devils seemed to attest Gill's joy in life -and therefore to praise God. "Man," Gill wrote, "is that part of creation which can praise his creator. Because he can, he is ordained to do so; and because he is so ordained he is in misery unless he obeys the call...
...eager, happy faces of anxious relatives and patients who have just read that streptomycin is practically a sure cure for tuberculosis, explain as gently as possible that the wonder drug has its limitations and is unsuitable for their particular sufferer, and watch hope change into sickening despair, can attest to the damage done by overenthusiastic writing on such topics...
...Maddux had Captain Hans Estin back at midfield for the season's last game and Paul Davidson on attack. The Crimson's nine goal total seems to attest the success of the move...